{"id":68270,"date":"2024-05-21T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68270"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:44:03","slug":"the-radical-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68270","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/margiprideaux.substack.com\/p\/the-radical-step\">THE RADICAL STEP<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It&#8217;s time to take the most radical step you&#8217;ve ever taken in your life. It&#8217;s time to build the community you need to survive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/37fb851a-a369-497c-8d19-cb37badca4f0_1080x720.webp&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:720,&quot;width&quot;:1080,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:57662,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/webp&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">An exclusive Guardian survey of hundreds of the world\u2019s leading clvimate experts<\/a>\u00a0has found that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a devastating degree of heating;<\/li>\n<li>almost half \u2013 42% \u2013 think it will be more than 3C;<\/li>\n<li>only 6% think the 1.5C limit will be achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2024\/may\/08\/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">The Guardian<\/a>\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2018Jonathan Cullen, at the University of Cambridge, was particularly blunt: \u201c1.5C is a political game \u2013 we were never going to reach this target.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The climate emergency is already here. Even just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/aug\/04\/climate-breakdown-supercharging-extreme-weather\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">1C of heating has supercharged the planet\u2019s extreme weather<\/a>, delivering searing heatwaves from the US to Europe to China that would have been otherwise impossible. Millions of people have very likely died early as a result already. At just 2C, the brutal heatwave that struck the Pacific north-west of America in 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldweatherattribution.org\/western-north-american-extreme-heat-virtually-impossible-without-human-caused-climate-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow ugc noopener\">will be 100-200 times<\/a>\u00a0more likely.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 \u201cI am scared mightily \u2013 I don\u2019t see how we are able to get out of this mess,\u201d said Tim Benton, an expert on food security and food systems at the Chatham House thinktank. He said the cost of protecting people and recovering from climate disasters will be huge, with yet more discord and delay over who pays the bills. Numerous experts were worried over food production: \u201cWe\u2019ve barely started to see the impacts,\u201d said one.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to build the community you need to survive the climate chaos future unfolding in real-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"header-with-anchor-widget\"><strong>Community! Ugh!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RADICAL STEP BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It&#8217;s time to take the most radical step you&#8217;ve ever taken in your life. It&#8217;s time to build the community you need to survive. 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